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Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

Robertson Davies
Country, Hate, Worry

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

Robertson Davies
Country, Insanity, Dull
Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet.

Robertson Davies
Country, Night, Years
"High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories". Book by Robertson Davies, 1982.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Robertson Davies
Country, Scotch, Desire

If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Robertson Davies
Country, Book, Doctors

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